during Hitler, people were moved about to facilitate the Nazis plans for the Empire, big farms there so move farmers there, etc Then the communists came and it was the same. Two soldiers knocked on the door - take your children and down to the railway station, NOW. Yet another edict. But we are from here. The countries borders changed and it was the western powers who changed them for their own wealth, not we. So 48,000 Hungarians and many others were exiled with only a handbag, as were we. The slovakians laugh and tell us, we got to rob all your homes for free. We like the Russians, they were our drinking pals - before they had been dyed in the wool Nazis!